This is just one of a series of pages covering surviving Railway Cranes across the world. Click here for the Index or click here for more information on Chinese canes. There is now (February 2014) a working preserved example of a Z151 at the Shenyang Railway Museum - http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/8545538.html - thanks to John Raby for this news (26th February 2014). (Link broken by December 2023. RD)

The following pictures were taken by me (Rob Dickinson) over the years during my travels in China, the first two digits of the type indicate its capacity. Most if not all locally produced steam cranes seen appear to be products of Qiqihar:

This is a Z151 at Beitai Steelworks in 2003:

Another large crane apparently Z152 at Sandaoling in 2006:

Another large crane apparently of the same type at Sandaoling in 2006:

Z601 #737 at Sandaoling in 2006

Z151 at Nanzhan, Jalainur on 2007, it carries the number 881:

Z151 #1112 at Nanzhan, Jalainur on 2007:

Both sides of Z152 #1505 at Jalainur in 2007:

What appears to be an unnumbered Z152 at the washery at Jalainur in 2007:

Z601 breakdown crane at Jalainur in 2007: